Patrícia

Patrícia Mamona is a Portuguese triple jumper and Olympic medalist. In October 2018, I started visiting Patrícia’s training sessions at Centro de Alto Rendimento do Jamor in Lisbon. We had a simple arrangement: I could film or photograph without restrictions as long as she didn’t have to interrupt any of the exercises. Her discretion and focus made me feel almost invisible, as I either anticipated some of her exercises or was overtaken by others. It was a long and complicit process that lasted until September 2021, a month after she won the silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics, setting a new personal and national record of 15.01 meters. José Pedro Cortes Patrícia is the portrait of a solitary performer, of the body and mind at work. Throughout the book we experience the training routine of an Olympic athlete, as we watch, in a parallel montage, a sequence of images of her winning jump at the Tokyo Olympics. Patrícia José Pedro Cortes Pierre von Kleist ediitions, 2023
 15.1x21 cm, 184 pages
 Hardcover with dustjacket ISBN 978-989-53531-5-6